World War II
1939–1945 · Event
Allied powers defeat Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan; ~70-85 million dead.
On these timelines: Master, World War II, Germany, United Kingdom (combined), Japan
Around 1939
- Apartheid (1948)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)